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...While I was talking to him two medics climbed laboriously up through the rocks trying to get him back to the aid station. I had been trying to comfort the lad, who had been in the Army only five months, and tell him he was all right...
...Pettiford and Bob Morrison, a pair of six footers will start at ends, while Joe Bodiker, a highly touted Dayton, Ohio lad, will be the center...
When Foreign News Writer Eldon Griffiths was in TIME'S Los Angeles bureau, one of his favorite stories concerned a well-behaved but homeless lion whose young master had been inducted into the Army. The lad had reported at Fort Ord with the lion, was given two weeks to find a more appropriate place to leave it. Touched by this state of affairs, Griffiths took it upon himself to find a home for the outsized...
...would never have chosen Ronald Rosser. Not that Ronald wasn't well liked-he was one of the quietest and best-behaved boys in town. But he just wasn't a fire-eater. He was a medium-sized (5 ft. 8 in.), medium-heavy (160 Ibs.) lad with medium brown hair, who seemed perfectly contented to lean against store fronts and watch the world-or what there was of it in Crooksville...
Among the battle-seasoned veterans who marched down Piccadilly in London's 1945 Victory Day Parade was a flap-eared Chinese lad who wore the Order of the British Empire. No one who noticed slim, sickly Chin Peng that day could have guessed that in a few years he would be responsible for 7,000 Commonwealth casualties, including 4,000 dead and missing...